Born in a different time?

Does anyone here think that they were born in the worng era? I think I should have been born aorund like 1850 and lived untill 1947. I wanted to experience the industrial rev in America and Imperialism, plus the Meiji Restoration.

I kind of feel like I should have been born around 1980. I don't know why but I feel like I would be more comfortable with who I am, my views, attitudes, hobbies, choice of music/books/etc., if I were ten years older.

I think theres something to this, I gotta ditto wishing I was born in the early 80's maybe even late 70's. How awesome would it be, to be 7 and have the NES released. A lot of my current tastes tend to gravitate towards the things in the 90's I was too young to know about.

I kind of feel like I should have been born around 1980. I don't know why but I feel like I would be more comfortable with who I am, my views, attitudes, hobbies, choice of music/books/etc., if I were ten years older.

Originally Posted by Chillhouse

Like the guy above me, I wish I had been born in the early 80's. Being a teenager during the 90's must have been awesome.

Custodial Engineer? At least it sounds exciting.

Originally Posted by Mako

I think theres something to this, I gotta ditto wishing I was born in the early 80's maybe even late 70's. How awesome would it be, to be 7 and have the NES released. A lot of my current tastes tend to gravitate towards the things in the 90's I was too young to know about.

Dorks.

Being a teenager during the 90s was awful. All the music that was reasonable was displaced by awful noise in 1990-1991. Didn't really "recover" until about 1995, and then 1997-1998 saw the Boy/Girl-Band revival.

The 90s - in this country, at least - marked the adoption and acceptance of Jive (now called "Ebonics") and the Political Correctness movement.

Being born and around in the times spelled out above has the unfortunate side-effect of being around long enough to know just what we've abdicated more recently.

I suspect that I myself would have liked either 1920s Germany as a graduate student (and out before 29), or 1950s USA as same. I think, though, that the most prosperous and promising time to be born in recent memory would have been 1948-1955.

... and now it's Dogboy's or Pramrider's turn to tell me that I'm a dork for wanting to be born in 1948-1955.

I was a teenager in the 90s. It was ok. At the time, I was into music written by folks who were either long gone, or Dave Brubeck. I should perhaps google to make sure he's still around. Not sure. The 90s had no noticeable influence over that music. I wasn't one of the cool kids, and I chose clothing based on how they'd hold up in the woods--if there were big trends/changes in the 90s, they were lost on me.